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Veterinary Dental Services

Dental disease is very common among cats and dogs. By some estimates, 75% of cats and dogs over the age of 3 years old have dental disease significant enough to warrant treatment. Dental disease can affect many organs in mammals. Making sure your dog gets dental care or you cat gets dental care is important to their overall well-being. Ask yourself one question…does your pet’s breath smell bad? If it does, chances are there is a serious problem already and veterinary dentistry is needed.

Causes Of Veterinary Dental Disease

At our hospitals, we have seen dental disease cause:

Severe pain that stopped pets from eating

Heart infections that caused heart failure

Tooth Root abscesses that put pressure on the eye

Congenital issues that pushed a tooth through the upper palate and into the nose

Disease that ate the jaw bone

Chronic blood infection that cause severe lethargy

Many people have noted the effects of dental disease in their own pets and haven’t even realized it. Once they have treated the disease, they often note that their pet eats better and has more energy.

Extensively Trained Veterinary Dentistry Staff

At our hospitals, we have spent extensive time at additional training to learn and perform the following procedures. It is relatively uncommon for general vets to provide all of these services in their hospital.

Dental cleaning and evaluation

Dental x-rays

Surgical extraction of teeth

Interceptive dentistry (think doggie / kitty braces, but not quite)

Root Canal

Dental sealants (to try and prevent root canals)

Vital Pulpectomy

Dentiduous cyst removal

Hemimandibulectomy (partial jaw amputation)

Fibromatous epulis removal

Cancer removal / debulking

Jaw fracture fixation

In our hospitals, we believe that dental disease is so significant, that we evaluate the disease on every patient. We have all seen the benefit that good oral health plays in the overall health of our patients. Plus, your pet’s breath will smell better too.